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From: steve.simon@snellwilcox.com
Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] 9x and similar old apps
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:27:37 +0000
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I still have a copy of x.tar.gz on a CD if anyone wants it.

Its the labs port done by Howard Trickey for the old Plan9 Graphics
model (rel2) and would need a load of work to make it fly with /dev/draw (I'am
told).

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=I%27ll+finally+fess+up++group:comp.os.plan9&hl
=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=199705011142.HAA22089%40cse.psu.edu&rnum=1.

I guess this would be a way to get mozilla to run on
Plan9 [ducks and runs away to hide :-]

-Steve


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Subject:    Re: [9fans] 9x and similar old apps
Author: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date:       15/11/02 02:30

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Joel Salomon wrote:

> Are there other old old programs that have been updated and renamed? And
> are there non-ported programs I can cut my teeth on?
>

long before I ever heard of Plan 9, it supposedly had an X server ported to
it. ie you could run your X programs and have them display in a Plan 9
window.

this port has long disappeared, though i remember seeing 'x.tar.gz' once
in 2000 on the bell-labs anonymous ftp server.

there are also programs mentioned in the papers and man pages that only
exist (or have existed) internally, or at times there have been man pages
for stuff that didn't appear outside bell-labs' computers, but that's more for
the conspiracy-type people :)

andrey